Drug arrests - 361/19

Date Responded 05 April 2019

Provision of information held by Northumbria Police made under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (the 'Act')

As you may be aware the purpose of the Act is to allow a general right of access to information held at the time of a request, by a Public Authority (including the Police), subject to certain limitations and exemptions.

You asked:

1.Please tell me how many children under 18 were arrested on school premises in a) 2018 b) 2017 for supplying drugs or with intent to supply.

2.For each case in 2018, please provide the age of the child, the sex, the type (s) of drugs involved and the volume (although I appreciate the volume may not always be recorded.)

3.If possible for the cases in 2018, please tell me how many of the children were i) charged or issued with a summons

In Response:

Following receipt of your request, searches were conducted within Northumbria Police. I can confirm that the information you have requested is held by Northumbria Police.

I am able to disclose the located information to you as follows.

1&2

Drug/Quantity	Age (All males)
Year	12	16
2017
MDMA
11 tablets		1
2018
Extasy
11 tablets	1

3.None

Disclaimer

Due to the different methods of recording information across 43 forces, a specific response from one constabulary should not be seen as an indication of what information could be supplied (within cost) by another. Systems used for recording these figures are not generic, nor are the procedures used locally in capturing the data. For this reason responses between forces may differ, and should not be used for comparative purposes.

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